Konoha: The road to the gods starting from Kannabi Bridge

Chapter 53 Don’t use torture!
The raised rocks formed a natural shelter, blocking the heavy rain. The defeated Iwa ninjas gathered under the rocks to take shelter from the rain. The atmosphere was quite depressing and heavy. Everyone was silent, wondering. How to speak, I don't know what to say.

Akaishi sat on a stone with his eyes lowered, as if deep in thought.

Slate and the other two jonin were also silent.

As for the remaining special jounin from ANBU who is not here, he was sent out by Akaishi to patrol around. Although it is unlikely that the jounin of the Kozhi clan will pursue him, as the saying goes, there is no big mistake in being cautious, and Akaishi is used to being careful.

"The reason why this operation failed is my fault."

After being silent for a long time, Akaishi finally raised his eyes, looked at everyone, and first took the responsibility on himself, "I underestimated that Huzhi Yuzhang, his strength... is far away According to my prediction, the deaths of Feng Chenchen and Xiu were all due to my fault for being too careless."

"Lord Akaashi, this is not yours alone..."

"Slate."

Akaashi raised his voice, blocking Slate's words, and said in a deep voice: "I am the captain, and you are all my subordinates. In the actions just now, you have tried your best to do what you can, and No one was timid and backed down, and the operation failed under such circumstances... Of course it was due to my improper command as the captain, and no one can blame it."

"Akaashi, I have no problem with you taking over the responsibility. You are the only one among us who can handle the trouble of a mission failure."

One of the two Jonin who came with Akaishi spoke. From his words, it sounded different from Slate. His relationship with Akaishi was obviously closer, and it was not a cold superior-subordinate relationship. He stared at Akaashi said: "But if you ask me, now is not the time to discuss the division of responsibilities. Shouldn't what we need to consider now be how to act next?"

Akaashi sighed softly upon hearing this.

This reason,
Of course he understands.

The only problem is that he didn't think clearly about what to do next after thinking for a long time.

"Akaashi, [-]% of the reason for our failure today is because of that woman who is immune to physical attacks. We failed to kill that woman in a short time as planned. Instead, she was killed by that guy. We should now What I do is analyze that woman’s methods, find her flaws, and kill her in the next action!”

The jounin with fierce eyes waved his hand suddenly, making a beheading gesture.

"Iwami, this matter... is not as simple as you said."

Akaishi frowned.

Admittedly,

As Ishimi said, this action was indeed because Banyan and Ishimi had not been able to capture the woman, so they could not come over to help him work together to solve the problem of Kozhi Yuzhang, who was repeatedly mentioned by Lord Tsuchikage. powerful enemy.

But during the fight with Huzhi Yuzhang,

He noticed something strange. The young man who could compete with him head-on without falling behind seemed to have a deeper trump card. This gave him a very subtle premonition that maybe even without that woman as a helper, Their actions this time may not yield results!
This was one of the reasons for his hesitation.

Some people sneer at the so-called intuition and premonition and do not trust such irrational things, but there are also people who firmly believe in it, and Akaashi happens to be the latter. He trusts his own ability in countless life and death crises. Honed intuition.

Therefore,
After the enemy was killed, he decisively ordered a retreat and even gave up on recovering the body.

"Akaashi, what do you think is so complicated?"

Jonin Ishimi with fierce eyes also frowned.

"Judging from Xian's mistake, it is impossible to deal with the woman who is immune to physical attacks with detonating talismans, and methods such as water escape and earth escape have also been proven to be useless. If you want to deal with him, it is almost impossible to defeat him. You have to rely on fire escape, and it has to be a powerful enough fire escape technique!"

"And none of us has mastered fire escape, which means... if we want to deal with that woman, we have to ask for help from the village."

Akaashi didn't talk about intuition, which lacked strong basis. Instead, he analyzed rationally how to deal with Kozhi Yuzhang's helper.and,

We came to the conclusion that we must seek help from the village.

The jounin named Ishimi was immediately silenced. Akaashi's reasoning seemed to him to have no problem. Indeed, the foundation of that woman's secret technique was 'paper'. No matter how you think about it, her weakness should be fire escape, but What he wanted to analyze and discuss was not this obvious weakness that they could hardly exploit.

"...I think besides fire escape, there should be other means to restrain that woman."

After a few seconds of silence, Iwami said slowly.

"There may be a second weakness, but I don't think it's that easy to find."

Akaashi shook his head.

If a secret technique has many weaknesses and they are all easily discovered... then this secret technique has no practical value at all. He does not think that Iwami's idea can be easily achieved.

at this time,

The sound of footsteps splashing in muddy water came from the rain.

"It's bronze."

Akaashi recognized that the figure coming in the rain was the special jounin from ANBU who he sent out to patrol around.

"Lord Akaashi, I have discovered something."

The ANBU Iwa Ninja, codenamed 'Bornite', came to the foot of the rock.

He also carried a corpse on his shoulders... No, it was a living person, still breathing!
"Patterned bronze, is this... the rain ninja?"

Slate looked at the living person who was thrown to the ground by the bronze.

"It's Yu Nin. When I was patrolling, I found the traces left by this guy. He was wandering around here. He seemed to be investigating us. I have to say that this guy's perception is quite keen. Not only did he find me, but he was also preparing to ambush me. One-handed, but unfortunately his skills are not very good, I thought maybe I could torture some information about the Kingdom of Rain from him, so I brought him back."

Bornite answered Slate's question,

"Good job."

Akaashi praised aloud.

Immediately,

He looked at the last jounin in the team except Banyan and Iwami, and said: "Ishizui, let you, the expert, do the interrogation work!"

"Don't worry, even if he is an iron man, I will let him talk."

The Jonin Ishiki, who had been silent like a stone man, finally spoke at this time, with a cruel and fierce smile on his face.

but--

The torture has not yet begun,
The rain ninja who was awakened loudly said: "Iwa ninjas, are you here to hunt down the Huzhi clan? Don't use torture! We are not enemies, it is better to say that we should be allies!!!"

(End of this chapter)